Wherever it occurs, Occidentalism is fed by a sense of humiliation, of defeat. It is a war against a particular idea of the West - a bourgeois society addicted to money, creature comforts, sex, animal lusts, self-interest, and security - which is neither new nor unique to Islamist extremism. This idea has historical roots that long precede any form of 'U.S. imperialism' .

Whenever I think of the traumatic impact of Auschwitz, I end up dwelling on the vitality and creativity of those living today. Thus, in thinking about Auschwitz, I reflect, paradoxically, not on the past but the future.

Imagination can be footloose, or a third eye into the future. How did AD 2000 seem 100 years ago? In 1899, a cigarette company asked French artist Jean Marc Cote to do a set of visuals on the third millennium. The firm went bust, and the project sank. Years later, Asimov saw in them mans age-old prophetic urge...

Magazine | Jan 03, 2000

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